Again to each their own. A lot of these programs ran many hours on the equipment, It was rejected from military service because of expense, or political reasons or changes in specifications or because programs ran too long. Both the XC-142 and the AH-56A were very close to entering service when they got cancelled. The CL-84s did really well during test.
The Project fielded a lot of stand alone equipment such as Science 1 and Mars 1, Hamm suits, fusion packs, lasers, freeze tubes the silly computer system the holograms at Prime Base, the autodcocs, the three vehicles from Operation Lonestar, the autogyro, FACEME and that is just a quick list. Crap the Stoner system itself falls into the category of not ever really accepted for service.
Also remember the aircraft aren't carrying any fuel accept for a little bit of heavy hydrogen, so they can probably carry a bit more playload
As for making this equipment disappear that is the easy part-the prototypes would be bought as scrap and listed as destroyed.
The final decision comes down to the PD.
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